Craft Code: Art Collecting Throughout the Netherworld

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Description

In Atelier City, an artistic haven filled with technological marvels, lies a netherworld where monsters dwell. These monsters embody the dreams of humanity, their greatest hopes and worst fears. Stumbling into this netherworld by accident, Allen Lee, an ordinary young artist looking for wonder, encounters an odd woman said to be a potential inheritor of the title, "Grim Reaper".

Caught in a battle of succession he was not selected for, Allen struggles to learn magic in a society where people possess it innately while the Reaper’s Inheritor vies to escape the chains of fate binding her. Seeking to find a treasure that can rid them of the curses they are dealt with in the midst of this, the two become amateur supernatural investigators collecting mystical art pieces left behind by the monsters they find.

With eight others who are potential inheritors to the Grim Reaper who have been foretold to become legendary heroes deciding to unleash the threat they were meant to vanquish, can an unchosen one and one chosen for darkness defy destiny itself?

- MC will start weak but gradually grow stronger by training and collecting art from the Netherworld with deck building that involves harnessing the powers of defeated monsters.- There will be an ensemble cast that forms from all sorts of supernatural beings such as warlocks, monsters, cyborgs, and magicians.

- A blend of fantasy and sci-fi elements where the differences and similarities are explored in-depth.

- An unchosen one MC without supernatural gifts or magical ancestry that has to struggle against unfair bestowed powers and prophecies using strategy and determination.

Schedule: Weekly chapter releases

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2024
Author: Maverick26

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
Followers: 14
Views: 7,576

Chapters(46 total)

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Community Reviews(1)

FauxPraetorRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The world and the concepts at play here are interesting. It’s quite creative, and the blend of sci-fi and urban fantasy is peculiar but not unappealing.
STYLE
The prose has a couple issues. Many sentences are wordier than they need to be, and paragraphs can drag out enough to affect the pacing itself. The writing is not particularly difficult to comprehend, but it has a propensity for redundancy.
STORY
The plot can move slowly at times, and the pacing is not the best. There are some chapters where it feels like little happens, and events can be hard to follow. A single chapter may switch between scenes multiple times, and it’s occasionally abrupt.
GRAMMAR
The only problem here are formatting/punctuation issues. There’s a tendency of ‘ and “ being used interchangeably, even at the start or finish of what should have been the same line of dialogue. Another one I noticed was two periods being used in place of either a single one or an ellipsis, particularly in later chapters.
Beyond that, the grammar is decent. I only noticed one typo across ten chapters.
CHARACTERS
The main character is written as to have a bit of a hero complex, and it shows. He can border on insufferable in certain scenes, even if it’s intentional, and that can be off-putting. The dynamic between the two main leads is imperfect, but intriguing. I could indeed see these two people working together despite their differences, so that makes sense.
The dialogue characters can be strange at times, however. It can be hard to follow and sometimes conversations feel forced. Individually, the characters are understandable even if not always likeable, but their interactions are a weaker point.
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Overall: I believe this has the potential to be great if it overcomes the few issues it has. The world is rather unique and blends many interesting elements, it simply could have been even more fascinating.